There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
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How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
You know ChatGPT, but how much do you know about the company that made it? Journalist Karen Hao joins us to talk OpenAI’s latest implosion.
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A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
Why are we here? What is everything made of? This theoretical physicist says science isn’t the right way to answer these questions.
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The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
Bram Stoker's mother survived a terrible cholera outbreak and recounted the ghastly scenes to her son years later.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
"The Soul of a New Machine" provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity's greatest thinkers.
A $30,000 electric vehicle with 400 miles of range that charges in under 10 minutes remains a pipe dream over the near future.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
Who doesn't love a little existential fear every once in a while?
1700s economic principles predicted Uber. A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why.
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For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story's ending.
"When Harry Met Sally" lied to you.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
There's nothing like the end of the world to make you a philosopher.
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.